Nowadays, reform and opening up have been around for several years, and Beijing's scientific research institutes have experienced some things.

Everyone has a concept of what business tricks do multinational companies like Coca-Cola have, or what habits are popular with scholars.

In short, any foreign company that is qualified to enter China is not stingy in using money.

These experts and professors who study food have not gained benefits from Coca-Cola, at least they have gained benefits from COFCO.

Of course, the benefits provided by Coca-Cola are quite delicious.

"I didn't see that Yang Rui is young and so powerful." After leaving the conference room, Chang Shihui laughed and explained himself, and then said something else.

The friend around him understood instantly and smiled and said, "If you are not powerful, you can't do so many things. If you calculate the projects he has done, I don't know how much money it will take..."

"One million is not enough." Chang Shihui had already calculated it. It was not that he couldn't figure out the exact answer, but that he couldn't imagine it if there were more.

Nowadays, state-owned enterprises have advantages in welfare benefits, because state-owned enterprises with research institutes are all large state-owned enterprises. For example, COFCO Group, the laid-off wave in the 1980s was not affected, and the business was still in the 1990s. By 2000, their real estate companies could sweep the whole country.

However, the research scope of professional state-owned enterprises is narrow after all, and they are willing to provide less funding for experiments. In this regard, the research institutes of state-owned enterprises are not as good as ordinary research institutes or as good as those of university research institutes.

Chang Shihui was not unique in his unit. He naturally fell behind when he came out to compare funds and projects. From the perspective of the 1980s, he might not have received less than one million yuan in his experiment funding in his life.

Of course, his achievements in this life may not be as good as a CELL paper.

Therefore, Chang Shihui calculated 1 million, but he was unwilling to forget it.

The colleagues who came with him had never seen more than 200,000 yuan in funding - food makers are poorer than biological makers, which is the truth of the universe - they said enviously and jealously: "I heard that Yang Rui has a good relationship with the UK's Jelikan. Didn't the foreign trade of the Chinese medicine give him a 200,000 yuan in funding? I heard that it was also because of Jelikan."

"Now, his relationship with Coca-Cola has improved." Chang Shihui said with emotion.

The people who were traveling with him curled their lips: "Young people nowadays know how to hug foreigners' thighs."

Chang Shihui smiled and glanced at the side. He quickly pushed him, saying, "Look at what you said, it will attract foreign investment now. Ask the secretary of the municipal party committee if he wants to hold on? It is a skill to be able to establish a relationship with foreigners."

Among this group of people, half were holding foreigners' thighs, and half were trying to hug them but had not yet hugged them. If Chang Shihui didn't make up for this, his colleagues would not know how many people he would offend.

The latter's eyes turned and knew that he was rogue. He coughed twice and stopped talking.

"Let's take a break here and taste the snacks produced by our Coca-Cola. Of course, these products are not yet produced in China and can only be imported for the time being." Manager Xiao said as he sent someone a ticket of colorful snacks to his hands.

Two pieces per person, no more or less.

The scholars here talked freely, and at most glance at the snacks on the table, as if they were disdainful.

"Everyone take a break first." Manager Xiao smiled and went out.

"Bang"

When the door was closed, the atmosphere in the room seemed to become more lively.

Chang Shihui put all the snacks in his pocket one handful, leaving only a piece of candy, opened the bag and slowly held it in his mouth, thinking involuntarily: Yang Rui had no idea how many bags of candy he would carry back this time.

In the conference room, Yang Rui was also waiting for the Coca-Cola people to offer the offer with joy.

Ransomware of multinational companies, his mentors used to drool in this way, but it was useless. No matter what time it was, only scholars at the top of the pyramid could extort companies at the top of the pyramid.

Just the school where Yang Rui went to and the geographical location, it was really difficult to extort multinational companies, and there were only a few successful ones.

Now, thinking that he was qualified to let Coca-Cola speak, Yang Rui was also quite happy, and he felt a sense of accomplishment that could break away from the past.

The sum of the shadow areas in Mr. Sherwood and Mr. Gibson's hearts is as many as 8 units. It is 2 by 2, plus 2 by 2. The two of them communicated for a moment with their eyes, but Sherwood spoke and said: "Mr. Yang Rui, the experimental questions you raised are very valuable. We want to invite you to cooperate with Coca-Cola to study this issue in depth."

"How to study?" Yang Rui smiled all over his face, and there was a despicable Thousand-Handed Guanyin in his heart rubbing his hands while shouting: Let's go, let's go!

After confirming with Gibson with his eyes again, Sherwood said, "We are willing to invest in your project research. What is the tentative amount of funds required to be $5,000?"

This number is 2.5 times the budget of $2,000 when Sherwood entered the door, which is equivalent to the income of an ordinary American family for about three months. According to the CPI of the US Department of Labor, it is roughly equivalent to $11,484 in 2015.

It’s not too much by the US standard, but by the Chinese standard, $5,000 is really too much. This is not really a funding for you to do research, it’s just a bribe.

If the same money is given to the officials, I don’t know how many people will be knocked out.

Just like the way Americans spend in Vietnam and Myanmar, Sherwood believes that the 5,000 US dollar is enough to make Chinese Yang Rui kneel on one knee.

If you change to a researcher, you might really kneel down on one knee. If you don’t take $5,000, you won’t take it for nothing. If you are brave, you may swallow it all. Someone may not cause trouble for you. If you are timid, you can exchange 20,000 yuan for your foreign exchange license first. The extra 30,000 yuan is simply a reasonable and legal income, and it is simply a simple way to launder money.

It turned into 30,000 yuan households overnight. If the poor and lower-middle peasants saw it, I don’t know how much indignation and resentment would arouse.

However, Yang Rui was inevitably disappointed.

In the stories of extorting multinational companies he has heard, the units of funding are at least tens of thousands, and if they are not done well, they are millions. What the hell is there for thousands of units?

$5,000? It cannot be said that it is less than Yang Rui, but the number he expected is not enough.

Yang Rui even felt that Coca-Cola looked down on people.

Look at the other person, Jilikang, who has dividends of hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and has no one to default on a day. What a good person.

By comparison, Yang Rui's mood was in a state of falling on a roller coaster.

"Do you have any requirements for the project you are going to study?" Yang Rui's voice was as cold as Thousand-Handed Guanyin.

"There is no special requirement, both food and biological aspects," Sherwood answered indifferently.

The Thousand-Handed Guanyin in Yang Rui's heart sacrificed a whetstone and rubbed it, saying, "Then we can do a human experiment against teenagers."

"What?"

"Using teenage mice as research objects is indeed easy to produce experimental errors of one kind or another. In fact, there are so many young people drinking carbonated beverages now. We can conduct scientific investigations and research directly, conduct a long-term project, and understand the impact of carbonated beverages on young people in a targeted manner." Yang Rui was not really scaring them. Such research has been conducted in many research institutions in later generations. Reports on the release of old research institutions such as Haval University have frequently appeared in news from countries around the world.

Sherwood was indeed frightened, and his white face turned whiter. He hurriedly said, "Wait, is it legal to use teenagers to do human experiments?"

Yang Rui shrugged and said, "Human experiments are a general term. You refer to experiments in a narrow sense... In fact, this kind of experiment is completely different from medical experiments. We do not need to make requirements for teenagers to drink carbonated beverages. We only need to select a certain number of teenagers, such as 5,000. Then, we do regular physical examinations and follow-up visits on them, record their physical physiological indicators, record the amount of carbonated beverages they consume every day, and after a period of time, analyze these data. The selected teenagers will not change anything because of our research. Of course, we need to seek the consent of the teenagers themselves and their parents."

If there were no problems with carbonated beverages, there would naturally be no problems with such experiments. However, it is now 1984, and Coca-Cola has long lost its sense of security.

From Sherwood's perspective, even if Coca-Cola is beneficial to physical and mental health, they are unwilling to do so? Tracking and research takes place on their own territory.

Gibson said with a chance: "The cost of such an experiment is too high. We may not be able to afford it. You know, our rights are limited... Besides, in China, it may be difficult to find a suitable experimental subject."

"We don't have to conduct experiments in China. Coca-Cola is sold globally, and people who drink carbonated beverages are also global. Well... I happened to have a collaboration with a professor from the University of Tokyo in Japan. We might be able to discuss this project. In addition, the British may also be interested..."

Gibson and Sherwood's little hearts trembled.

Gibson licked his lips and said, "Mr. Yang Rui, Japan and the United Kingdom are both countries with extremely high consumption around the world. If you do tracking research in these two places, you will need at least $20 per student per year, and 5,000 people will be $100,000."

The implication is that he doesn't believe that Yang Rui can take out 100,000 US dollars.

Yang Rui nodded naturally and said, "There are other related expenses that have not been calculated. In this case, it is indeed a problem..."

Gibson and Sherwood's mouths were slightly raised. Are you going to offer a price?

But Yang Rui seemed to think for a while, but said, "Maybe we can only reduce the scale. In the first phase, we chose 2,000 students in a country and conducted an 8-month follow-up survey first. In this way, 50,000 US dollars should be enough. There is just so much money left in my laboratory."

Gibson and Sherwood were totally desperate.

For multinational corporations, wealthy researchers and wealthy lawyers cannot be messed with.

Although a lawyer with insufficient funds sounds like a lawyer, any multinational company has the ability to use countless documents and procrastination strategies to pile up you without looking at evidence.

Even if a researcher who has no money is called a scientist, he will at most be like a reporter. Writing a few words that are not painful, will not hurt multinational companies. However, once a researcher becomes rich, his offensive against multinational companies is like a wave turning into a tsunami, especially in the food and biology fields. For example, DuPont, he will fall into the paint formula of a non-stick pan. It is not a strong laboratory and it is difficult to fight and win such a company.

Sherwood and Gibson didn't know if the experiment Yang Rui said would be successful, but just listening was scary enough.

"Mr. Yang Rui, I can prepare $12,000 to fund your research. If you are willing to wait a little longer, we may have additional surprises." Sherwood showed his greatest sincerity, and he could only approve $12,000 at most.

Yang Rui shook his head regretfully and said, "I didn't expect Coca-Cola to be so poor."

Sherwood blushed and said, "We will ask our superiors for instructions."

Yang Rui didn't know that two years later, CCTV made Coca-Cola a big news just for the advertising fee of $200,000, which melted Coca-Cola's doubts in China.

For institutions like CCTV, $200,000 is a sky-high price, and the $12,000 proposed by Sherwood is indeed very high.

Unfortunately, the living money in Yang Rui's hands is far from comparable to 12,000 US dollars.

After thinking for a while, Yang Rui patted Sherwood and Gibson on the shoulders respectively and said, "There is no need to 12,000 US dollars. Since Coca-Cola has limited funds, there is no need to donate to my laboratory for the time being. We will have a period of time in the future."

Sherwood and Gibson watched Yang Rui leave, and they wanted to press Yang Rui to the ground more than once.

After a long time, Sherwood asked, "What is Yang Rui's final opinion?"

"I don't know." Gibson's eyes were confused. Today's conversation was too informative.
Chapter completed!